Method of delineating or reproducing pictures and designs.



R. C. BECK, E. A. OWENS & J. H. STEINMAN. METHOD OF DELINEATING OR REPRODUCING PICTURES AND DESIGNS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 1. 1915.

Patented Jan. 29, 1918.

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CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that we, ROY O. Bron, En- WARD A. Owens, and JACOB H. STEINMAN, citizens of. the Unitedv States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and lineating or reproducing pictures and designs.

The object of the present invention is to provide a method whereby a picture or design containing one or more colors may be delineated or. reproduced on smooth, semismooth or rough surfaces, such as paper,

. cardboard, linoleum, leather, fabrics, wood,

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glass, metal, etc., without the use of engraved plates of any kind. Further objects will hereinafter appear.

The method will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a view of the original sketch to be reproduced. V

Fig. 2 represents a card of'green color upon which card the multi-colored sketch of Fig.1 is to be reproduced by our process.

Fig. 3 is a view of. the card shown in Fig. 2, after the blue color has been applied.

Fig. 4 shows the same card with the brown color applied.

Fig. 5 represents the next step with the white color applied.

Fig. 6 represents the next step with the yellow color added.

Fig. 7 represents the same card after the last color, which is red, has been applied, and the reproducing operation completed.

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the stencil frame through which the colors are applied. Referring to the drawings in detail, the operation'of the process will be as-follows: The sketch or drawing to be reproduced is represented in Fig. 1, and indicates a land scape in multi-chrome. The colors which are diagrammatically represented are green, indicatedat 4; blue indicated-at 5; brown indicated-at 6; white indicatedat 7; yellow indicated at 8, and red indicated at 9.

Fig. 1 will be referred to, for convenience, as the master pattern. Fig. 2 is the card or other surface upon which the scene of f. 011) OF DELINEATING OR EEPRQDUGING PICTURES Specification of Letters tatent.

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Fig. 1 with its respective colors is to be I and frame being of such size as to be superimposed on the sketch to be reproduced.

In Fig. 2 the card on which the reproduction is to be made is representedashaving a (green surface, the color having been applie in any appropriate manner; green in this instance being the background color.

The first color to be applied on this background of green, is blue, indicated at 5, and here begins practically the first step of our process.

Step 1-Tra'cing and bZ0ck'ing.-The tightly stretched screen 2 is laid upon the master pattern of Fig. 1, and the outline of all that portion or portions of the master pattern shown in green, and which green tones are to be preserved in the reproduction, are carefully traced on the screen; these traced portions then being painted over with shellac, varnish, glue, asphalt, or

any other suitable material. This is termed blocking out. In other words, the meshes of the screen incloscd by the traced outline indicative of green are closed by a suitable filler or impermeable mask to prevent any paint or coloring matter going through. The efi'ect of such protection is to protect the base or background color, on the card of Fig. 2, (in this'instance indicated as green at 4,) to prevent any of the succeeding colors from over-laying it, thuspermitting the original color, green, to appear through all the successive color runs. The meshes may also be closed by suitable masks or stencils cut from paper, tissue, metal or any material best suited for the work in hand.

Step 2-Applying the c0Zo1'.--When a color is to be applied, it is only necessary to place the card below the screen or stencil frame as previously described 1n such a. manner that a perfect register is always obtained. The frame is preferably hinged to a flat surface adapted to receive the card and any suitable means may be provided for securing a perfect register between the card and the frame when the tracing 1s being made and during each succeeding run.

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' of a color of such high viscosity thatthere is no danger of its underrunning the edges of the pattern and blurring the margin lines.

The run of the blue color 5 covers, as indicated at Fig. 3, all that'part of the surface on which the reproduction is made, except thepreviously traced and blocked out or permanently masked green portions 4.

Ste 3Washing so as not to izfi'ect the bZ0ckmg.-After the firstcolor blue, indie cated at 5 Fig. 3, has been applied to all the cards, it is necessar to change the stencil to permit the app ication of the next color. This is accomplished by thoroughly washing the stencil frame, that is screen, 2, to remove all the composition or paint by any suitable solvent which will not affect or remove-the shellac or other protective niaterialused in masking that portion of the screen protectingthe green areas 4. In otherwbrds, these masks of a previous run remain on the screen throughout the opera- "tion, and as we will see the entire screen,

except the area for the very last color applied, is eventually blocked out. Having washed out the blue paint we then have a clear screen for all those portions except e which are permanently masked by t green "areas indicated at'-4, Fi .3.

Step 4Tmeing, the meet 00 01' and blocking.--The screen stencil islaid again on the master pattern of Fig. 1, and a tracin made on the screen wherever the blue C0 or ap- All parts of the screen where the ars.

blue of Fig il is to be retained, are then, so

7 coated =-'or masked, as previously described in connection with color 4. That is to say, all the area or areas in blue appearing on Fig. 1, are blocked-out on the screen, in this manner permitting the next color which is shown as brown, 6, to pass through only that part of the screen not protected for the green and blue of the original or master pattern. All areas except the underlying green are allowed to receive" a deposit of aint so that a building-up orembossing efect is eventually roduced. a

. Ste 5App lymg the newt eaten-Thetrace screen, now having the colors 4-5 of the master pattern blocked out, is placed on the card of Fig. 3, and brown paint is then in other words, posed in distinct layers one on top of the other. This is of great importance as it not poured on to the screen surface and forced through the still open meshes by a squeegee fiCtlOIbflS before, producing a card such as shown in Fig. 4, with its three colors, green, blue and brown (4-5- and 6).

Step 6.-The screen is then washed as before, so as not to disturb the masks for the green and blue.

Step 7.The screen is next placed over the master pattern and the brown areas 6, showing through the screen, traced and then blocked out.

Step -8-Applying the newt c0Zor.The white color 7 is then applied through the remaining open meshes of the screen by squeegee action, as previously described in steps 2 and 5.

Step .9.The white is then washed off the screen so as not to disturb the masks for the green, blue and brown. 7

Step 10.-The white of the master pattern 1s traced and blocked, similarly as in steps 1-4 and 7.

iThe card has now four colors upon it, green, blue, brown and white, 4 5--6 and 7.

Th yellow color, indicated at" 8, is next run through in the same manner as the other colors, and finally the'red color, indicated at 9, is run.

Any number of colors may be applied in this manner after masking out after each successive run whatever art of the last color run is to be maintaine the same operation .being repeated until all colors in the. original drawin have. been run. The finished print will? then appear as-an exact facsimile of the original sketch.

By referring to the several Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5,

6 and 7 which show the step by step a plication of each individual color it will e-seen that each color partly overlays the other;

t e several colors are super-- only permits a natural'modeling and embossing of all designs but also a clean cut margin line and perfect register of all colors.

From the foregoing, "it is seen that the difierent steps follow each" other in cycles,

each color constituting a different cycle, and

each cycle difiering from the other cycles in respect/to the areas treated. A cycle in short consists of:

(1) Securing a suitable background color; 4

-(2);Tracing upon [a tightly stretched screen from a .master pattern, the background color .tobe preserved;

(3) Blocking the traced area on the screen; I

(4) Laying 'screen in" close contact with the surfacfio treated, and in proper regisfirtherewith; I (5) Applying a thickish paint on to the screen;

in v a (b) Forcing the paint byeven pressure through the screen with a squeegee or equivalent, and maintainin the screen in close contact all the time with the surface to be treated;

(7) Removing the screen and washing 0% the paint, but not disturbing the already blocked areas on the screen;

(8) Tracing and blocking the colored areas on the screen from the master pattern,

which areas correspond with the color.

just applied thus producing an embossed eflect of considerable thickness; and inasmany colors as there are layers of color.

The stencil form can be made also by sensitizing either metal, silk or other fabric of an open mesh nature and printing on same photographically, fixing the image so obtained and depositing solid matter chemically on such image and electroplating same;

also by painting the image with any compo sition which can be electroplated and plating same with any. suitable metal. The method ofreproduclng pictures described in the foregoing specification may also be applied when necessary in theform of a separate stencil for each color, constructed as I heretofore described and so arranged that each will register in its proper place,

. to reglster with preceding colors.

part of this method. This method permits reproduction on paper, cardboard, wood, leather, textiles, glass, porcelain, celluloid or any other suitable materials; also on rough surfaces, such as emery cloth, fine gravel roofing, asbestos or any material having a rough surface, where ordinary methods are useless.

The size of the work can befrom a post card size to a bill board strip approximately three feet wide to ten feet high. Each section of a bill board can be made so that when they are pasted side by side, a complete picture is made.

The present process entirely eliminates any sort of engraving of-plates, such as Wood cuts, zinc, copper or the like, thereby till eliminating the expensive method of reproducing color work or designs by costly engraving. The method furthermorepermits the use of oil colors, and. this is desirable-as it gives a distinctive efiect not possible with the usual method of printing. Water colors ,orany other suitable semi-plastic material may also be used for embossed effects.

he present method permits the colors .to

i be overlaid and therefore, permits the pro- 7 duction of raised effects not p, naflr methods of printing;

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' what we claim and desire to secure by Letj trs Patent isving thus described our invention,

1., A- method of producing multi-colored pictures or designs which comprises successively forcinga plurality of colors throuh Both plans are auze fine mesh screens a single screen which is after each color run in sue a way that a sucseeding color will be superposed upon a prepossible by ordipictures from a master pattern, which comprehends the application on a suitably col.- ored background of a card or other surface to be treated, successive colors makin up the picture to be copied through the me ium of a screen by tracing on the screen the area or. areas on the master pattern corresponding to the color of the aforesaid background, blocking said area or areas, laying the screen upon the said surface to be treated, applying a coloring medium through the open meshes of the screen by s ueegee' action, washing out the paint from t e screen without affecting the previously blocked areas, re-tracing on the screen from the master pattern the colored areas in the master pat tern corresponding to the color just run, blocking out on the screen these traced areas, applying a succeeding color and repeating the cycle of operations until all the colors in the master pattern have been reproduced upon the said surface to be treated.

3. A method of producing multi-colored pictures or designs which comprises successively forcing a plurality of colors through a single partly blocked out screen which is diflerently reblocked after each color run in suclia way that at least part of a succeeding color will extend ever part of a preceding color.

' 5. A method of producing multi-colored pictures or designs which comprises succesa single screen which is partly blocked out I after each color run in such a way that at tend over a part of the ediately preceding color.

- 6. A method of producing multi-colored pictures or designs which comprises successively forcing a plurality of colors through artly blocked out cedin color. p

7. t method of producing multi-colored pictures or designs which comprises succes. sively-forcing a plurality of colors through. a single screen which is partly blocked out after each color run in such a way that a sue ceeding color will he superposed upon super posed prece colors.

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ltd sively forcing a plurality of colors through v ltd treated upon which there has already been applied a color corresponding 'to the areas blocked out, running color through the re-- maining open meshes of the screen, removing the screen and washing from it the color just run without disturbing the previous blocking on the screen, then laying the screen over the master pattern and tracing thereon the Tarea or areas corresponding to the color just run, blocking these tracedareas, placing the screen again on the surface to be treated, applying color through the open meshes of the screen, washing the screen and repeating the cycle of tracing, blocking, running the color, and'washing until all the colors have been reproduced.

9. A method of producing multi-colored pictures or designs having embossed portions and clean cut margin lines which consists in tracing :.on a screen covered frame from an original which it is desired to reproduce, the outline of a color which it is desired to first apply, blocking out all the surface exterior of, the traced lines by filling in with shellac or other material, then placin the screen on the surface upon which the co or is to be applied, depositing paint thereon'and, forcing it through the open meshes of the screen by running a flexible scraper over the screen, again tracing on said screen an outline for a second color and blocking out the remaining surface to cause the second color, when forced through the screen, to partly overlay the first, then proceeding with each individual color until all are applied.

10. A method of reproducing multicolored pictures which comprehcnds the application of successive colors making up the picture to be reproduced upon a surface to be treated, through the medium of a tightly stretched screen maintained in close contact with the surface to betreated while a particular color is being applied by means of a squeegee, each ROY C. BECK. EDWARD A. OWENS. JACOB H. STEINMAN.

Witnesses:

' EUGENE W. LEVY, FLORA MCBRIDE. 

